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I couldn't find any book threads and I don't want to lose any recommendations.

Okay so I am currently reading the "Harem Midwife," and my siblings saw it and were like "the haraam midwife."

It's a historical book set in Constantinople in the 16th C (Ottoman Empire, 1578). So you get a lot of superstitious stuff about Nazr and the mix of faiths being introduced. It starts off really intense and goes into a midwife story. I want it to pick up with the storyline as I'm not keen about reading about superstitious stuff and midwifery.

On my latest to-read list I have "the confident woman. Devotional." by Joyce Meyer and I found this while browsing through books and I think it's great for women especially coming from cultural and traditional roots to pick this up and realise that we should feel confident and our worth is so much more than how people have treated us.

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I have a weird way of reading. That is, I don't read from front to end of a book as most people do. I read the first chapter or two, and then I start to read by just opening the book and reading from wherever I feel like, in a more random fashion. For some reason reading that way makes it easier for me to stay focused and interested in what I'm reading. And I can also understand everything as I read, since I read non-fiction only, unlike fiction which has to be read from beginning to end without skipping.

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I have a weird way of reading. That is, I don't read from front to end of a book as most people do. I read the first chapter or two, and then I start to read by just opening the book and reading from wherever I feel like, in a more random fashion. For some reason reading that way makes it easier for me to stay focused and interested in what I'm reading. And I can also understand everything as I read, since I read non-fiction only, unlike fiction which has to be read from beginning to end without skipping.

That's fair enough - but don't you feel like you get a worse experience as the book is designed to be read in order?

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I have a weird way of reading. That is, I don't read from front to end of a book as most people do. I read the first chapter or two, and then I start to read by just opening the book and reading from wherever I feel like, in a more random fashion. For some reason reading that way makes it easier for me to stay focused and interested in what I'm reading. And I can also understand everything as I read, since I read non-fiction only, unlike fiction which has to be read from beginning to end without skipping.

That is how I read the Qu'ran translation.

With other books when I do get dragged on - I would skim read but not randomly as it wouldn't make sense.